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First, they tweeted his name more than 1.5 million times within 72 hours. #CeciltheLion appeared as a firestorm of colorful dots on trend maps of popular hashtags around the world, garnering about 17 tweets a minute on Tuesday morning, 860 a minute by Tuesday afternoon, and still nearly 500 a minute by noon Thursday. “Rest in Peace Cecil,” one user mourned, in a post notable for its mild language. “All animals go to heaven. Not so sure about humans. #CecilTheLion,” wrote another. That post, too, is civil -- unlike thousands of expletive-studded tweets too profane for a family newspaper. NEWSLETTER: Get the day's top headlines from...

"Breaking Bad" broke big Monday night at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards, taking home the honor for best drama for its final season, along with statues for stars Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul and Anna Gunn. Cranston expressed surprise: "Even...

Were you paying attention to the pop culture in 2011? It was certainly an eventful year, with pop stars and talk show hosts grabbing headlines and a colorful cast of Republican presidential hopefuls jockeying for position. Here's a little test to make...

MINNEAPOLIS The turmoil surrounding the killing of a beloved lion in Zimbabwe by a Minnesota big-game hunter is playing out around the world Wednesday, with court proceedings against two men, U.S. authorities offering investigatory assistance and the...

MINNEAPOLIS The turmoil surrounding the killing of a beloved lion in Zimbabwe by a Wisconsin big-game hunter was playing out around the world Wednesday, with court proceedings against two men, and the hunter saying anger aimed at him has forced a...

What does it take to make Jimmy Kimmel cry? The death of Cecil the Lion, apparently.
On Tuesday, the comedian lashed out at Walter Palmer, the formerly anonymous Minnesota dentist who became the scourge of the Internet for...

Michelle Obama welcomed thousands of athletes with intellectual disabilities to the Special Olympic World Games on Saturday during a festive opening ceremony filled with cheers, songs and praise for their courage and determination. "My husband and I,...

Michelle Obama welcomed thousands of athletes with intellectual disabilities to the Special Olympic World Games on Saturday during a festive opening ceremony filled with cheers, songs and praise for their courage and determination. "My husband and I,...

Jimmy Kimmel and much of his audience got a taste of what heaven must be like when the stars of "Magic Mike XXL" stopped by the show.
Channing Tatum, Joe Manganiello, Matt Bomer, Adam Rodriguez and Kevin Nash appeared...

Nearly 14 million of viewers recently bid farewell to David Letterman, and Jimmy Fallon is a YouTube sensation. But when Americans were recently surveyed about their all-time favorite late-night host, most still looked back fondly on the on the phrase...

“I'll be honest with you,” David Letterman said at the outset of his very last TV show after more than three decades. “It's beginning to look like I'm not going to get 'The Tonight Show.'“
What he did get, on show No. 6028 Wednesday of the nation's...

It's official: "Full House" is coming back to TV. Or more accurately, to Netflix.
The streaming giant confirmed Monday that it has ordered 13 episodes of "Fuller House," a reboot of the 1987-1995 ABC family sitcom about a widower (Bob...

With the Dennis Quaid video rant making the rounds, Jimmy Kimmel was wondering Tuesday night: Why don't you people trust me anymore?
Sure, Kimmel watched Quaid losing it in what appeared to be cellphone images surreptitiously recorded on a movie...

Once upon a time, all a movie star had to do to promote their big upcoming blockbuster was to show up on a late night talk show and tell a few carefully chosen anecdotes. These days, the trend is toward games. Show up and play a game and people will...

Despite an early-set knock on the nose that required a bandage for lead singer David Lee Roth, Pasadena's greatest rock export Van Halen survived its nationally televised debut on Monday night -- and shut down Hollywood Boulevard in the...

Stand-up comedian Hannibal Buress is widely credited as the person who almost single-handedly thrust Bill Cosby's alleged transgressions back into the national spotlight after he called the 77-year-old entertainer a rapist during his comedy act.
On...

President Obama had several things on his mind when he stopped off in Hollywood on Thursday to visit “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
In addition to showing a sense of humor with the all-President Obama edition of Kimmel’s regular “Mean Tweets” sketch—he laughed...

President Obama called years of racial targeting in Ferguson, Mo., "oppressive and objectionable and worthy of protest" but decried the gunfire that left two police officers injured there early Thursday.
"There was no excuse for criminal...